The special election in Pennsylvania Congressional District 18 is today. The polls close at 8:00pm EST. The district political registration heavily favors the Democrat Conor Lamb with a +50,000 advantage in Democrat registered voters. However, President Trump carried the mostly blue-collar district in 2016, and he supports Republican Rick Saccone.

Generally speaking the Democrat Conor Lamb is favored; and with that outcome in mind the media began using this likely Democrat win to position an anti-Trump narrative. To counter that narrative President Trump went to PA and campaigned with Rick Saccone. Both RNC and DNC have spent a lot of money on this temporary district race.

Democrat Conor Lamb is attempting to revive the extinct “blue-dog” model and has refuted Nancy Pelosi along with the far-left-wing of the Democrat party; while emphasizing his strong labor union relationships. On the Republican side, the district is Pro-Trump on the national economics but candidate Rick Saccone has strongly supported ‘right-to-work’ policies which the local unions do not like. So it’s a weird election.

I used to vote Dem all of the time and I can tell you with much regret that it was because I was totally lo-fo about the economy, national security, and other important issues. I was into my career and I was young and enjoying my life. I was a so-called “values” voter, my “values” being the ability to kill unborn babies being one of the tops.

I am completely and totally the opposite now. Hillary’s primary loss in 2008, the last election in which I voted for any Dem candidates, was a life changer for me. I started THINKING. I started reading and researching and educating myself. And now with the help of this site I have transformed into a true heartfelt conservative.’

You just told my story. I was one of the women who was angry that BO came along and “stole” the election from Hilliary and the Democrats went right along with it. I promised that I would never vote Dem again and since that 2008 election, my eyes have been totally opened to things that I can not unsee now. Not necessarily happy to side with the republicans, but they seem much better than the dems. My husband says that I am such a conservative now that it is embarrassing! LOL

I was on the Trump train back in 2012 when he was pushing the birth certificate issue. I decided then that he should be president. I thank our lucky stars every single day for his presidency and that that woman didn’t have a snowballs chance of winning.

I have followed this race pretty closely and I know the area well, although I don’t live there.

I know the basic outline of the people who live there. A Democrat can win in this kind of district if they run the right race.

The problem for Saccone, among others, is that he had so little money of his own to spend that he was not able to “define himself” as much as he would have liked. The campaign was more about negative attacks against Lamb (RNC), and less about why people should vote for Saccone and who he is.

Just hope we can get it done tonight., But there are lessons to be learned moving forward, win or lose.

“Generally speaking the Democrat Conor Lamb is favored; and with that outcome in mind the media began using this likely Democrat win to position an anti-Trump narrative.”

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Until or unless the polling stations are secured — with paper ballots and VIDEO surveillance in addition to independent observers — the demonrats will simply continue their pervasive voter fraud.

Ensuring national election integrity seems like something the AG could be involved in. And whatever is done to secure national election integrity could and should be carried over directly to state and local election integrity.

Democrats are drilling down formula today – young, defense background, attacking democratic leadership, attaching with PTrump economic message and policies.
All the red districts will be decided by these kind of setup without killing primary.
Obama is more busy now than when he was president.

Actually, they have been pretty accurate in the past…I started using them to keep track…but until certain counties, etc come in, they can’t be totally certain. It’s based on actual real vote count so they have to wait until the vote is counted.

Westmoreland County is R, although 2 of 3 county commish are democrat, so a guy like Lamb might play well there. Early returns are all Pittsburgh, so pretty much straight blue. Lamb needs to hammer votes there, and I think what the NYT is seeing is that he’s not really doing as well as he needs, and if he doesn’t do well in the rural areas, he might not have enough to put him over the finish line. Should be close though.

This reminds me so much of election night 2016, where Hillary had a big bump in the beginning of the state returns, only to watch her lead over Trump get smaller and smaller as more county results came in.

Horowitz/doj promised to deliver the 1.2 million doc in January to Goodlatte Committee. The republicans complain about the Dems not following the law – yet the Rep doj is withholding oversight documents formally requested. Horowitz is purposely dragging his feet – why would the IG not comply?

“DoJ turns over some of the 1.2 million documents requested by Hse Judiciary Cmte as part of Congressional probe into DoJ & the election
6:56 PM – Jan 12, 2018”

There are those who hate America and want to destroy as and our Nation. There are those who are paid, there are those who won’t educate themselves and there are those who simply are not smart enough to understand what they are doing. All part of a very long and complicated answer.

Absolutely true. As an example, standing in line to vote in 2008, I overheard several young black ‘men’ discussing the ballot. One asked the other “Who is McCain?” I wanted to turn around and tell them if they didn’t know anything about the candidates other than the one they were voting for was black and therefore ‘cool’, they shouldn’t vote until they get educated.

It was either the Gravis or Emerson poll where I read that 13% of Trump supporters planned on voting for CL. It looks like the PA populace writ large is still stuck on 1D chess and think they know better than VSGPOTUS. Apparently Alabama isn’t the only place. PA 18 believed this Connor dude when he said he’s conservative? SMH. The lesson from this is that in Nov 2018,Trump voters need to heed Trump’s advice or all the tax cut benefits and good work T45 has done will be gone.

The only way to give thanks is to say prayers and show proper thankfulness to Trump by listening to him. If people in the mid-terms don’t make this decision to reward Trump then forget about it. Please get the word out about showing thankfulness. Fortunately PA 18 might have another try in several months to get it right. I still hope the results today will turn in our favor. If not, Connor is probably going to slyly obey Trump for a few months to prove his word.

You mean this is just good for a few months? I didn’t know that. So in the fall it will happen all over again? I see, GOP wants to run a RINO in the fall so they are working toward defeating Sacccone now? Sounds about right for the stupid party.

Lamb is a phony liar. Saccone has no personality and no hustle. That’s a big problem for Republicans. They expect people to vote for them instead of working for their vote. Lazy and entitled doesn’t cut it in this climate

It’s only a problem for Republicans because too many Republicans miss the big picture. #1 goal: retain the House and Senate majorities. Not saying Saccone is a rock, but if the GOP candidate is a rock then they should vote for a rock. All Trump supporters regardless of their party affiliation need to help Trump achieve his agenda, and those majorites are utmost important.

You’d think the folks in PA would understand that it is President Trump driving MAGA. It is President Trump that is bringing back the jobs, working to open the Steel Mills, bringing back coal and it is the Dims who want to kill all that. You’d think every American would understand that without getting President Trump more help all of what President Trump has worked for and accomplished to give back to America so far will all go away if they don’t get their collective heads out of their bums.

Why would the folks understand this when 95% of media is Leftist and 90% coverage of Trump is negative to point of vilification? We’ve done nothing to delegitimize or marginalize the media aside from calling them “fake news,” which ends up a worn-out risible expression with little meaning.

Don’t directly and proactively go after the monolithic propaganda machinery that powers the Left, pay the price. Trump’s supporters understand Trump’s accomplishments, but for the rest, the media blocks it out and poisons perceptions.

Precinct results are not currently available in Westmoreland County, a heavily Republican part of the district. We’re monitoring the county-level results closely, but for now we can’t responsibly make a forecast without more detailed information about where in Westmoreland County the votes are coming from.

Not to worry, they have just found the boxes of votes under someone’s bed and will be delivering them to precincts soon. (this actually happened in Las Cruces, NM a few years ago when I lived there…votes under beds, votes in cars, votes in trees…all show up just in the nick of time.

President Trump cannot carry congressional candidates on his back in an off-year election and meanwhile GOP congress has done NOTHING to earn votes. Tax cuts provided momentum (or stopped the bleeding)for a short while but have been totally cancelled out by the GOP opposition to POTUS trade policies. GOP congress is digging their own grave by not aggressively supporting MAGA and President Trump needs to avoid getting dragged down with them.

Democrats found formula how to make red districts folks fool to running away from democrats leadership and attach with PTrump economic agenda. It seems WV senator is coaching this lie as conservative democrats.

Anybody who travels around a mix of message boards KNOWS that Democrats are uniformily jazzed to beat PDJT, while there is a meaningful segment of conservatives who are absolutely POed that the Obama crooks have not been prosecuted. Demoralized. Cynical.

Relax Saccone is going to pull this one out ! One county left and its heavily republican and Succone is only down by 4. Wait and see.Lamb should be killing him since there are 50k more democrats to republicans.

No kidding? This very honest man is running for election to the 18th. district of PA to The U.S. House of Representatives against both national political parties. Dang, we got one man doing all that? Very impressive!